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Congressional committee votes to allow destruction of wild horses

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Monday, July 24, 2017 12:33 PM
Two young wild horses play while grazing in Reno, Nev., in 2010. The House Appropriations Committee voted July 20 to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in early May.

A Congressional committee vote on Tuesday amounts to a death warrant for the mustangs and wild burros that roam America’s rangeland, an advocate for the animals said.

The House Appropriations Committee voted to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in early May.

“Let’s be clear: House Appropriations Committee members just signed a death warrant for America’s mustangs, and it will lead to the wholesale destruction of these irreplaceable national treasures,” said Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Campaign in a news release.

Read the rest of the story at http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/19/wild-horse-destruction-vote-passes/

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